Wish I Didn't Know
From the category archives:
(WIDK By Remus Lee) - The internet comes together to save a member of the “Greatest Generation.”
Around $138,000 has been raised as part of a fundraising effort to keep 91-year-old World War II veteran John Potter from being tossed into the street.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – She protected the children in her care from the tornado, but could not protect herself.
As the devastating May 20th tornado hit her school, first-grade teacher Suzanne Hale, of Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma was huddling with her students and under tables when a metal pole shot through her leg, impaling her.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen ) - An elderly couple died in the tornado, but their love lives on.
A 47-year old love letter blown away by the devastating tornado in Hood County flew onto Lynn English’s front lawn in Granbury Texas — and when she tried to return it to the owners she learned that the long time lovers, Glenda and Robert Whitehead, had died together in the storm.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – A mother was not going to let this man abduct her child.
Melissa Torrez was quick to act when her 4-year-old daughter was kidnapped outside of their home by 31-year-old David Hernandez; she jumped into her car and chased him down for over 7 miles until she hit his car.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – A bizarre accident has left numerous people injured, with at least five critical.
A Metro-North commuter train from New York to Boston derailed and was hit by another train Friday evening while carrying over 700 passengers between the two trains, leaving over 60 people injured and five people critically injured.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - An Ontario man’s breakfast is interrupted by 400-pound black bear who wanted him for breakfast.
Joe Azougar, 30, could already feel the 400-pound black bear’s teeth on his scalp when two women, whom Azougar calls “his angels,” scared the beast away.
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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - A poor soul on death row finally meets the guardian angel who rescued him.
Captain Morgan, a dachshund mix, was rescued from a dog pound in Alabama by Eva Armstrong, one of the directors of Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – A man who was convinced not to jump off of the Golden Gate Bridge 8 years ago will present a public service award to the man who talked him down.
Kevin Berthia a married 30-year old father of two, credits Kevin Briggs of the California Highway Patrol with saving his life when Briggs convinced him not to commit suicide.
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(WIDK By Brittany Hahn) – This humble hero did everything right under an extreme amount of pressure.
A trainee nurse in Australia had to jump onto train tracks to save a man who had fallen and could not get up.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - Academy Award winning actress, Angelina Jolie, had a double mastectomy so that her children would not be afraid they would lose her to breast cancer.
At age 37 Angelina Jolie, Award winning actress, humanitarian, mother of six and partner of Brad Pitt, has had a double mastectomy because a faulty gene gave her an 86% chance of developing breast cancer and a 50% chance of ovarian cancer.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – It’s like the Parent Trap, track-meet edition.
17-year-old Jordan recently joined her Washington D.C. school track team to stay in shape, but soon gained a sister, Robin, after friends introduced them at an athletics track meet.
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